Redeeming Ruth releases today! To help orphans and people with disabilities in Uganda, please buy my memoir today and help spread the word on social media. You have been part of our journey, now help us celebrate!

Dear Readers and Subscribers, This bonus post is for you! In just five weeks, my memoir, “Redeeming Ruth: Everything Life Takes, Love Restores,” will be released by Hendrickson Publishers — and available wherever books are sold. I’m putting...

It was the last time I would ever be in my mother’s house. I’d been dreading this moment since she’d died 18 months before. Neither of us was prepared for her to go so quickly. Diagnosed with cancer in the middle of summer, she’d died six days before Christmas. Could I trust a God like this?

I once read, that while most non-profit, charitable-type organizations begin with an honest effort to help others, a turning-point frequently comes at which they shift from their original purpose towards self-sustenance. That is, they exist to keep themselves in existence.

On the morning after the terrorist attack against France, I packed a lunch, said goodbye to my family and drove 40 minutes up Maine’s Interstate 295 to the little town of Readfield, just west of the state capitol. There, on the second floor of the old-fashioned town...